The curtains fell on 2017 with another action-packed day of rugby as the 2018 NatWest 6 Nations draws ever closer. From a high-scoring fixture in the Premiership to dramatic matches in the Top 14 and PRO14, the international coaches will enter the new year with plenty of potential to look at. Chiefs outclass Tigers England head coach Eddie Jones was watching on as Exeter Chiefs went ten points clear at the top of the Premiership table with a...

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Author: REUTERS Sun, 2017-12-31 12:46 ID: 1514739445946878100 SEOUL: South Korean authorities have seized a Panama-flagged vessel suspected of transferring oil products to North Korea in violation of international sanctions, a customs official said on Sunday. The seizure was the second to be revealed by South Korea within a few days, as the UN steps up efforts to squeeze essential oil supplies to the reclusive North following its nuclear or ballistic missile tests. The ship, KOTI, was seized at...

Author: AFP Sun, 2017-12-31 19:05 ID: 1514738169436758300 MOSCOW: The man arrested by Russian authorities over an attack on a supermarket in Saint Petersburg has admitted to planning the act and planting the homemade bomb that wounded 18 people, investigators said Sunday....

Author: AFP Mon, 2018-01-01 03:00 ID: 1514747048977318800 SYDNEY: Australia rang in the New Year Sunday with a spectacular display of fireworks cascading from Sydney Harbor Bridge, as revellers partied amid tight security. About 1.5 million people packed the city’s foreshore to watch the pyrotechnics light up the sky above the historic bridge and the iconic opera house, the first major celebrations worldwide after New Zealand. Thousands turned out earlier in New Zealand’s largest city Auckland for the annual New Year’s Eve street party, marked by a major fireworks display from the Sky Tower. Celebrations are to move to Asia, the Middle...

Author: AFP Sun, 2017-12-31 16:03 ID: 1514734780096503200 PARIS: International Monetary Fund Chief Christine Lagarde has urged France and other countries to push through reforms “while the sun is shining” on the global economy. In an interview with France’s Le Journal du Dimanche published Sunday, Lagarde said the strength of the global economic recovery had taken the IMF by...

Author: AP Sun, 2017-12-31 03:00 ID: 1514739898866920100 KINSHASA, Cono: Congolese security forces shot dead two men outside a church on Sunday while dispersing demonstrators protesting in the country’s capital against President Joseph Kabila’s refusal to step down from power, according to Human Rights Watch....

Author: M. ISHTIAQ Mon, 2018-01-01 03:00 ID: 1514747455757352200 ISLAMABAD: Hours after Palestine recalled its ambassador to Islamabad, Pakistan issued a formal statement in defense of the envoy. The Palestinian Authority recalled Walid Abu Ali after India expressed concern over his presence at a Rawalpindi rally alongside Jamaat-ud–Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed. Friday’s rally was organized by the Defense of Pakistan Council (DPC) to protest US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital...

Author: AFP Mon, 2018-01-01 03:00 ID: 1514747048957318500 WASHINGTON: A sheriff’s deputy was killed and seven other people, including five deputies, were wounded Sunday in what police called a “domestic disturbance” in a residential suburb near Denver, Colorado. The lone suspect...

Author: REUTERS Mon, 2018-01-01 03:00 ID: 1514747048937318200 BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, under mounting pressure after three months of failing to form a new conservative-led coalition, vowed on Sunday to address growing social divisions. In her annual New Year’s address, Merkel promised increased investment in security and defense, improved health care and education, and efforts to overcome growing urban-rural disparities. “The world won’t wait for us. We must create the conditions now that ensure that Germany continues to...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congolese security forces killed at least seven people and at least one policeman died amid violence as more than a thousand people demonstrated in the capital against President Kabila's refusal to step down from power, the ......

LOS ANGELES — On June 7, the date that seems permanently stamped in OU history as the day the world stopped turning for a moment, Lincoln Riley stood in front of his team and did two important things. First was telling a room full of players he would work to earn their trust. Despite already being offensive coordinator, despite being a hotshot young coach, despite now being the leading man at a college football blue-blood, Riley carried no pretention. “I’m sure most coaches come in expecting to have that trust already, expecting to be all high on the horse, but he didn’t,” center Erick Wren said. “He has earned it, and he’s done what he said.” The second thing Riley did was set a striking...

San Jose: A plane crashed in Costa Rica on Sunday, killing at least 12 people, most of them foreign tourists, the country's security ministry said. The crash, whose cause is not yet known, took place in the mountainous area of Punta...

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